DEFENSE: Second Thoughts on SALT I

IN Pentagonese, it would be described as "first strike" strategy. For
weeks the Administration heavyweights have been out all over Washington
working to head off a possibly acrimonious debate over the two
agreements that Richard Nixon brought home from Moscow a month ago.
They are a treaty sharply limiting defensive anti-ballistic missile
sites and an agreement to freeze offensive missiles at roughly current
levels for the next five years. National Security Adviser Henry
Kissinger has endorsed them as "without precedent in the nuclear age,
indeed in all relevant modern history."